NYT: Democrats Weigh De-emphasizing Abortion as an Issue - Reassessing touchstone election issues

New York Times ^ | December 24, 2004 | ADAM NAGOURNEY

[TigersEye]

Amazing isn't it? This is the part that gets me...

Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.

[LibFreeOrDie]

And Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, said Republicans had "been successful at painting the view of the pro-choice movement as abortion on demand - and nothing can be farther from the truth."

I know this to be false, based on a Planned Parenthood mailer I received several years ago. It stated that their goal for the year was to achieve "unrestricted access for abortions after 28 weeks."

[finnigan2]

"Lack of principles on the other side got them where they wanted and now they're telling the public what they think it wants to hear."

- Exactly. You just can't "hide" a major plank in your Party platform and pretend to the voters that it's no longer something that's important. The Dems have to purge it's senior ranks of all the pro abortion activists and publicly distance itself from associated groups such as Planned Parenthood as a start in convincing voters that it's a real policy shift and not just an election tactic.

[Holden Magroin]

Howard Dean is a former Planned Parenthood abortion doctor. That says it all.

[Aquinasfan]

Democratic officials have said that the party should open its doors to abortion opponents and that candidates should make abortion a less central focus of future campaigns.

Excellent!

This proves that uncompromising opposition to abortion works. Playing footsie with murderers doesn't.

[fire_eye]

They're stuck. They can't abandon their "Conshituencies"; all they can do is try to find a way to respin themselves in the media to "reposition" themselves.

We shouldn't even be debating whether they'll actually change - they don't deserve credit for being capable of change, because they're not. Instead, we should be strategizing what we can do to force them to continue to tear themselves apart internally.

[schu]

Great analysis, they know the judicial appointment issue is lost, its time to retrench.

Where would the Demo's donors go? The Demos know that they can slide on a few issues and the money will keep flowing, they are not the majority of course.

[EternalVigilance]

Putting aside most of the content of this piece, since it is nothing but disingenuous spinning by conscience-less liberals, allow me to sum it all up in one short sentence:

Pro-lifers are WINNING!

[hershey]

I wondered how they'd spin this nonsense, and they're just getting started!

[hinckley buzzard]

"Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST) continues unabated."

Indeed. They are still lying to each other, and themselves, and think that somehow, out of that fraudulent soup, they will nurture a return to power.

Instructive as to just how seriously distorted the "reality" of the true believer can become.

[SunkenCiv]

earlier similar thread, must be a disinfo campaign from the DNC:

Pro-life Democrats
Posted on 12/18/2004 9:00:18 PM PST by gregd
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1304419/posts